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(NoMmieL) J. S. SAOKETT.

COMBINED BINDER AND FOLDER FOR $EWING MACHINES. No. 290.479. Patented Dec. 18, 1883.

ihvirn Aren't rrica JOSEPH S. SAOKFT'T, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO JANE HALLIWELL, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED BINDER AND FOLDER FOR SEWING-MACHINES SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,479, dated December 18, 1.883.

Application filed September 10, 1883. (X model.)

To aZ-Z 1072,0112, it may concern Be it known that I, Josnrn S. Snonnrr, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in a- Combined Binder and Folder for Sewing-Machines; and I do hereby'declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be afull, clear, and

exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a perspective view of a common binder; Fig. 2-, a perspective view of the same I 5 binder with the fold-guide D attached; Fig. 8, the ioldguideD detached; Fig. 4, a transverse section through the binder and i'oldguide, showing the guide in position; Fig. 5, a perspective view of the French fold which the invention is adapted to make.

This invention relates to an improvement in attachments for sewing-machines, designed specially for making that class of trimming commonly called French foldthatis to say, a fold composed of two strips of material, the one, a, doubled, the'other, b, also doubled, the open edge of the one, I), overlapping the open edge of the other, a, and the two edges of the part I) turned under to form a double 3o overlapping edge in the form of binding, so that the strip complete presents two doubled edges, the object of my invention being to adapt a common binder to the making of this class of trimming; and the invention consists in the construction of the binder and guide, as more fully hereinafter described, and par ticularly recited in the claim.

A represents the presser foot, fitted for attachment by a shank, B, or other suitable 40 means.

is delivered beneath the presser foot it is brought into a flat or closed condition.

Into the open side of the binderI introduce a guide, D. (Seen detached in Fig. 3.) This guide is U shaped, gradually contracting from its mouth or rear end toward the front end, with a flange, e, at both extremities, one turned up and the other down, and a slot, f, cut longitudinally from the contracted end rearward, and so that the slots will permit the guide to be introduced into the mouth of the folder, the flanges passing, the one over the upper part of the edge-turner and the other beneath thelower part of the edge-turner, the U shaped portion standing in the open side of the binder, as seen in Figs. 2 and at. Thus constructed, the doubled portion a is introduced into the U-shaped part (1 and the other portion, 1), into the part 0, the latter in the usual manner of introducing a binding-strip. The guide D serves to govern the relative position of the doubled portion a and lead it to the presserfoot, while the other turns the part 1) onto the part a, in the form of binding, and thus the two parts are delivered to the stitching mechanism and a line of stitches run through the center of the strip, as indicated by the line 71, Fig. 5, which completes the strip. If at any time the binder only is required, the guide D is withdrawn from the binder, and then the binder may be used in the usual manner for binding the edge of any material. Thus I adapt a common binder to the making of What is known as a French fold.

The depth of the guide D, and which governs the width of the strip, may be varied, different guides being fitted for the same binder, so that a variety of widths may be produced.

While I prefer to make the binder as a part of the presser-i'oot or a permanent attachment thereto, as shown, the binder may be constructed to be attached to the work-plate. 'In any case the detachable guide D is constructed to be applied in the open side of the binder.

It will be understood that by this attachment the fold may be made as hereinbefore described, and passing from the folder may be laid and stitched upon the garment or material and with a longitudinal slot from the forward in the usual manner of stitching braid thereon, the garment or material to which the fold is to be stitched being introduced beneath the presser-foot.

I do not claim, broadly, a combined binder and U-shaped guide for the open edge of the binder, as such I am aware is not new.

I claim The combination of the binder O with the detachable U-shaped guide D, the said guide D constructed with a flange, e, at each edge,

end rearward at the junction of the flanges with the body of the guide, the said slots per- I 5 mitting the U-shaped portion to enter the open side of the binder, and the flanges to pass into the turned edges of the binder, substantially as described.

JOSEPH s. sAcKnrT.

Vfitnesses:

Jos. O. EARLE, J. H. SHUMWAY. 

